APPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenant (temp. Captain) George Harry Woolley, 3rd
(Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly's Own), relinquishes the appointment of Musketry Instructor in N.Z. Expeditionary Force training-camps and the temporary rank of Captain whilst so employed. Dated 9th January, 1919.

Lieutenant Stirling Edward Keith Marshall, Unattached List (b), General List, was appointed Assistant Quartermaster, Featherston Camp, and granted the temporary rank of Captain whilst so employed. Dated 18th August, 1918.

Lieutenant Garth Galloway, Unattached List (b), General List, relinquishes his appointment in N.Z. Expeditionary Force training-camps. Dated 11th January, 1919.

Captain Ernest Edward Willoughby, Unattached List (b), relinquishes the appointment of Attesting Officer, under the Military Service Act, 1916. Dated 6th January, 1919.

Captain (temp.) Percy Edward Baldwin, Unattached List (b), General List, relinquishes the appointment of Relieving Military Representative to Military Service Boards, dated 30th November, 1918, and retains the temporary rank of Captain until further notice.

The undermentioned officers of the N.Z. Medical Corps are appointed members of a Special District Medical Board, with the pay of Lieutenant-Colonel at Expeditionary Force rates whilst so acting:

Major Colin Huntly Gordon, M.B. Dated 9th July, 1918.

Captain Gilbert Haywood Mirams, M.B. Dated 10th July, 1917.

Captain Ivan Norman Spedding, M.R.C.S. Dated 9th July, 1918.

Captain Arthur George Harvey, M.B. Dated 10th June, 1918.

Captain (temp.) William John Mullen, M.B. Dated 20th August, 1918.

Captain (temp.) Robert Allan Cameron, M.B. Dated 16th October, 1918.

2nd Lieutenant Justin Francis Huntly McCarthy, Unattached List (b), General List, is appointed Military Landing Officer and Railway Transport Officer, Otago Military District. Dated 30th December, 1918.

Captain Walter Vaughan Wilson, Queen Alexandra’s 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles, relinquishes the appointment of Assistant Quartermaster-General, Auckland Military District. Dated 30th December, 1918.

Captain Walter Vaughan Wilson, Queen Alexandra’s 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles, is appointed Military Landing Officer and Railway Transport Officer, Auckland Military District. Dated 30th December, 1918.

Lieutenant (temp. Captain) Dugald Macdonald Robertson, 1st (Canterbury) Regiment (Coast Defence Detachment), is appointed Military Landing Officer and Railway Transport Officer, and retains the appointment of Assistant Adjutant-General (temp.), Canterbury Military District. Dated 13th January, 1919.

Honorary Captain George Pricor, Unattached List (b), General List, relinquishes the appointment of Ship’s Adjutant and Quartermaster on H.M.N.Z. Transports, and is struck off the strength of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force. Dated 31st December, 1918.

Honorary Captain George Pricor, Unattached List (b), General List, is appointed Military Landing Officer and Railway Transport Officer, Wellington Military District. Dated 1st January, 1919.

PROMOTIONS, RESIGNATIONS, AND TRANSFERS.

N.Z. FIELD ARTILLERY.

D Battery.

Sergeant Laurence Arthur Rhodes to be 2nd Lieutenant (temp.). Dated 4th December, 1918.

2ND (SOUTH CANTERBURY) REGIMENT.

2nd Lieutenant (temp.) Harold Bertram Dale resigns his appointment. Dated 3rd January, 1919.

3RD (AUCKLAND) REGIMENT (COUNTESS OF RANFURLY’S OWN).

Sergeant Hugh Austin Wernham to be 2nd Lieutenant, supernumerary to Establishment. Dated 24th December, 1918.

11TH REGIMENT (TARANAKI RIFLES).

2nd Lieutenant (temp.) Thomas Gladstone Thomson resigns his appointment. Dated 3rd January, 1919.

15TH (NORTH AUCKLAND) REGIMENT.

Captain William Proctor is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 28th December, 1918.

17TH (RUAHINE) REGIMENT.

Lieutenant George Rudal Kidson resigns his commission. Dated 3rd January, 1919.

N.Z. ARMY SERVICE CORPS.

No. 2 Company.

2nd Lieutenant Stanley Herbert Crump to be Lieutenant, under the provisions of paragraph 111, General Regulations, 1913, supernumerary to Establishment. Dated 28th April, 1917.

N.Z. FORCES MOTOR SERVICE CORPS.

Motor-car Section, Wellington.

2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Charles Corden Larmour resigns his appointment. Dated 18th December, 1918.

N.Z. MEDICAL CORPS.

Penrose John Barcroft, F.R.C.S., Ire., late Major in N.Z. Expeditionary Force, was taken on the strength in the temporary rank of Major, with seniority dating from 1st October, 1915, and was granted the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel as from 14th October, 1916, whilst acting as a member of a Special District Medical Board.

NOTE.—The notices appearing in the New Zealand Gazettes No. 126, dated 9th November, 1916, and No. 117, dated 19th July, 1917, relative to this officer, are amended accordingly.

UNATTACHED LIST (b).

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants:

Oliver Alfred Burns Smith, under the provisions of paragraph 111, General Regulations, 1913. Dated 18th December, 1917.

Robert Fife Tait, under the provisions of paragraph 111, General Regulations, 1913. Dated 29th July, 1918.

Leslie Norman Ritchie. Dated 10th September, 1918.

Howard William Boddy. Dated 10th September, 1918.

Lieutenant Roy Liddelow relinquishes his rank and appointment on being transferred to the Australian Military Forces. Dated 21st April, 1917.

Lieutenant William Kerr resigns his commission. Dated 20th December, 1918.

The probationary appointment of Lieutenant Walter Thomas Cody is cancelled, under the provisions of section 5A of the Defence Act, 1909. Dated 13th December, 1918.

UNATTACHED LIST (b), GENERAL LIST.

2nd Lieutenant (temp. Lieutenant) Garth Galloway to be Lieutenant, under the provisions of paragraph 111, General Regulations, 1913. Dated 16th January, 1917.

2nd Lieutenant Stanley Gordon Guthrie, M.C., to be Lieutenant, under the provisions of paragraph 111, General Regulations, 1913. Dated 21st June, 1918.

Captain Claude Hall Clarke is struck off the strength of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force and posted to the Retired List, under the provisions of paragraph 35E, N.Z. Expeditionary Force Regulations, 1916. Dated 12th January, 1919.

2nd Lieutenant Selwyn Joyce resigns his commission. Dated 31st December, 1918.

Temporary Commissions as 2nd Lieutenants are substituted for the probationary appointments in N.Z. Expeditionary Force granted to the undermentioned. Commissions date from the dates set out against each name:

2nd Lieutenant (on probation) George F. Penlington. Dated 26th July, 1917.

2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Herbert James Raines. Dated 29th May, 1917.

2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Angus Mitchel Don. Dated 30th June, 1916.

2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Arthur Harold Eager. Dated 20th June, 1918.

2nd Lieutenant (on probation) William Gladstone Paton. Dated 13th September, 1918.

2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Francis Peter Fawcett. Dated 25th July, 1918.

OFFICERS STRUCK OFF STRENGTH OF N.Z. EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.

The undermentioned are struck off the strength of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, with effect from the dates mentioned:

Major Annesley Craven Robinson, on transfer to the Imperial Army. Dated 12th August, 1915.

Captain William Moody Bell. Dated 17th January, 1919.

Lieutenant Hugh Ferrywheir Meikle. Dated 13th November, 1918.

2nd Lieutenant Selwyn Joyce. Dated 31st December, 1918.